sanguinea, Diacope Cuvier [G.] (ex Ehrenberg) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828:437 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 2; ref. 997] Massawa, Eritrea, Red Sea. Possible types: ZMB 8146 (1, stuffed). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1981:24 [ref. 21549]. •Synonym of Lutjanus malabaricus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Dor 1984:141 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Lutjanus sanguineus (Cuvier 1828) -- (Kyushin et al. 1977:78 [ref. 19756], Kyushin et al. 1982:54 [ref. 19754], Allen & Talbot 1985:69 [ref. 6491], Allen 1985:115 [ref. 6843], Allen in Anderson 1986:577 [ref. 5634], Goren & Dor 1994:38 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:203 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:286 [ref. 27969], Carpenter et al. 1997:173 [ref. 23922], Chen et al. 1997:85 [ref. 26476], Mishra et al. 1999:86 [ref. 25315], Kar & Chakraborty 2001:126 [ref. 25680], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S108 [ref. 27377], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:202 [ref. 28072], Psomadakis et al. 2015:247 [ref. 34104], Ali et al. 2018:326 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:199 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:91 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:83 [ref. 37020], Zajonz et al. 2019:77 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 25 [ref. 38321] misidentified, Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:244 [ref. 39746], Zajonz et al. 2022:153 [ref. 40522]). Current status: Valid as Lutjanus sanguineus (Cuvier 1828). Lutjanidae: Lutjaninae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Madagascar east to west coast of India and Sri Lanka. Habitat: marine.